The images and the installation depicted are provided by development company Diligent Energy Systems, in Arusha, Tanzania.
This particular digester has a capacity of 60 cubic metres, and produces 60 cubic metres of biogas each day, using effluent from a nearby toilet block and 40 kg of crop residue from jatropha plants.
For more information, visit Diligent's website.
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